Write to your candidates and ask them to support the pledge. We have written the below template and example letter to help.
EMAIL TEMPLATE - Copy and personalise as required
<<Your full name>>
<<Your address including your postcode>>
<<Your other contact details (phone number, email address)>>
<<Today’s date>>
Dear <<MSP/ candidate’s name>>
My name is << insert your full name here>> . I am writing to you today about <<the issue>>. This issue is really important to me because <<reasons/your experiences>>.
I would like you to make a commitment to a better future for our food system by signing the Scottish Food Coalition pledge.
The Scottish Food Coalition’s Pledge states:
“I pledge to support the introduction of a Good Food Nation bill in the first parliamentary year. This must be founded upon the right to food, which will deliver a resilient, socially just, healthy and environmentally sustainable food system.”
You can sign the pledge online by following this link: https://www.foodcoalition.scot/candidates-pledge.html
Please respond to my letter to confirm that you have signed the pledge.
With thanks and best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
<<your name>>
<<repeat your contact details>>
<<Your full name>>
<<Your address including your postcode>>
<<Your other contact details (phone number, email address)>>
<<Today’s date>>
Dear <<MSP/ candidate’s name>>
My name is << insert your full name here>> . I am writing to you today about <<the issue>>. This issue is really important to me because <<reasons/your experiences>>.
I would like you to make a commitment to a better future for our food system by signing the Scottish Food Coalition pledge.
The Scottish Food Coalition’s Pledge states:
“I pledge to support the introduction of a Good Food Nation bill in the first parliamentary year. This must be founded upon the right to food, which will deliver a resilient, socially just, healthy and environmentally sustainable food system.”
You can sign the pledge online by following this link: https://www.foodcoalition.scot/candidates-pledge.html
Please respond to my letter to confirm that you have signed the pledge.
With thanks and best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
<<your name>>
<<repeat your contact details>>
EXAMPLE EMAIL FOR REFERENCE
Alistair Mackay
123 Example Street, AB12 3CD
Alistair.Mackay@gmail.com Tel: 01234 567 8901
15 March 2021
Dear Mr John Smith
My name is Alistair Mackay and I am writing to you today about the large amount of junk food advertising. This issue is really important to me because good nutrition is essential for everyone’s mental health as well as our physical health, and junk food advertising greatly contributes to people eating unhealthy food.
The industrial food and farming model has led to mass production and mass marketing of processed foods that are cheap to produce, chemically-intensive large-scale agriculture and long, deregulated global supply chains of foods as commodities. The places we buy food promote and normalise unhealthy diets. Scotland has an intergenerational health crisis, with individuals, communities and institutions undermined by poor health and diet-related diseases putting unsustainable pressure on the NHS. My children and their friends are exposed to huge amounts of junk food advertising. This promotes eating habits which are harmful to their health.
I know there are lots of problems facing the food system, and junk food advertising is just one of them. There are also problems with the way we produce food that is pushing out nature and produces carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. I believe we need the Good Food Nation bill, a law that works across the whole food system and takes holistic approaches to tackling these important issues.
I would like you to commit to addressing the problems in our food system such as junk food advertising. Please sign the Scottish Food Coalition’s pledge by May 1.
The Scottish Food Coalition’s Pledge states:
“I pledge to support the introduction of a Good Food Nation bill in the first parliamentary year. This must be founded upon the right to food, which will deliver a resilient, socially just, healthy and environmentally sustainable food system.”
You can sign the pledge online by following this link: https://www.foodcoalition.scot/candidates-pledge.html
Please respond to my letter to let me know if you are willing to sign the pledge, and how you intend to respond to my concerns. I look forward to hearing your response about this in due course.
With thanks and best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Alistair Mackay
123 Example Street, AB12 3CD
Alistair.Mackay@gmail.com Tel: 01234 567 8901
Alistair Mackay
123 Example Street, AB12 3CD
Alistair.Mackay@gmail.com Tel: 01234 567 8901
15 March 2021
Dear Mr John Smith
My name is Alistair Mackay and I am writing to you today about the large amount of junk food advertising. This issue is really important to me because good nutrition is essential for everyone’s mental health as well as our physical health, and junk food advertising greatly contributes to people eating unhealthy food.
The industrial food and farming model has led to mass production and mass marketing of processed foods that are cheap to produce, chemically-intensive large-scale agriculture and long, deregulated global supply chains of foods as commodities. The places we buy food promote and normalise unhealthy diets. Scotland has an intergenerational health crisis, with individuals, communities and institutions undermined by poor health and diet-related diseases putting unsustainable pressure on the NHS. My children and their friends are exposed to huge amounts of junk food advertising. This promotes eating habits which are harmful to their health.
I know there are lots of problems facing the food system, and junk food advertising is just one of them. There are also problems with the way we produce food that is pushing out nature and produces carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. I believe we need the Good Food Nation bill, a law that works across the whole food system and takes holistic approaches to tackling these important issues.
I would like you to commit to addressing the problems in our food system such as junk food advertising. Please sign the Scottish Food Coalition’s pledge by May 1.
The Scottish Food Coalition’s Pledge states:
“I pledge to support the introduction of a Good Food Nation bill in the first parliamentary year. This must be founded upon the right to food, which will deliver a resilient, socially just, healthy and environmentally sustainable food system.”
You can sign the pledge online by following this link: https://www.foodcoalition.scot/candidates-pledge.html
Please respond to my letter to let me know if you are willing to sign the pledge, and how you intend to respond to my concerns. I look forward to hearing your response about this in due course.
With thanks and best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Alistair Mackay
123 Example Street, AB12 3CD
Alistair.Mackay@gmail.com Tel: 01234 567 8901